From October 11 to 15, the first stage of the 15th United Nations Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15) was held in Kunming, China, entitled “Ecological Civilization: Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth”. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, delivered a keynote speech at the Leaders’ Summit.As one of the well-known specialists in the field of environmental law, ...

Recently, a joint research team consisting of Professor Jun He from the School of Physical Science and Technology of Wuhan University and Professor Song Jin from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made important progress in the study of the magnetic properties of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal phosphorus sulfides (MPX3, M is a metal element, X is S, Se), and discovered that low-temp...

China’s first real-time glacier monitoring system has been developed by Wuhan University China Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping and Yulong Snow Mountain Cryosphere and Sustainable Development Field Observation and Research Station of Northwest Institute of Ecological Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (hereinafter Yulong Snow Mountain Station). The system can...

On October 14, Professor Chen Bo from WHU’s School of Philosophy was elected as a full member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences (AIPS) at a meeting held at the University of Zadar, Croatia, where he delivered his paper Quine’s Naturalism: Clarification and Defense through an online platform.  This is another international honor following his election to the Institut I...

On October 19, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC, IF=24.1), a top international journal in the cardiovascular field, published online the latest research findings of Professor Hu Dan’s research group (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University) on arrhythmia. According to this research, SCN5A, encoding the cardiac sodium channel, is a major...

​Recently, the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law, an English academic journal sponsored by the Research Institute of Environmental Law of Wuhan University and published in collaboration with the international leading academic publisher Brill, was selected for inclusion in the Scopus citation database. This is further evidence of the important progress made by the Research Institute of Envir...

Recently, the group of Wang Lianrong and Gu Meijia's from WHU’s School of Pharmacy has made significant progress in applying a new type of membrane-targeting photosensitizer with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics for the efficient inactivation of human coronaviruses, exploring a new method for the specific and efficient inactivation of human coronavirus under mild reaction con...

On August 24, the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (JASR), an international academic journal, published online new scientific research from WHU’s School of History and Archaeological Institute for Yangtze Civilization.The paper is entitled Compositional study of household ceramic assemblages from a Late Neolithic (5300–4500 cal BP) earthen walled-town in the middle Yangtze River val...